About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our customers. Our Institutional bank helps our largest customers move trade and capital around the region, providing our people with great opportunities to build their technical expertise and their careers.

About the Role

As Head of Legal, ANZ Europe SA, this will be a key leadership role responsible for ensuring robust governance and legal risk management across the organisation.  This role supports ANZ Europe SA’s Board, senior management, and business units by providing expert legal counsel, identifying and managing legal risks and enabling strong corporate governance. The Head of Legal role is integral to ANZ Europe SA, supporting its strategic agenda, providing legal and structuring advice on transactional matters, and ensuring alignment with both local and cross-border legal frameworks, in line with ANZ’s commitment to sound governance and risk management.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Location: Paris, France
Role Type: Full-time, Permanent

What will your day look like?

As a Head of Legal ANZ Europe SA, you will be responsible for;

• Legal Advisory & Strategic Counsel: Provide legal counsel to Directeur General and senior leaders, supporting risk, compliance, and enablement functions.  Develop deep understanding of business strategy, operations and customer needs. 
• Transactional Advice: Support banking transactions originating from ANZ Europe SA, including reviewing, negotiating, and drafting documentation under English and French law. Deliver detailed legal and structuring advice and guide new product processes and policy development.
• Regulatory Environment & Investigations: Monitor and interpret the legal and regulatory landscape, global trends, and associated risks, while supporting the implementation of regulatory changes. Provide expert regulatory advice, assist with compliance matters, and manage remediation activities, investigations, and regulatory enquiries.
• External Counsel Relationship Management: Manage relationships with panel law firms and oversee appropriate cost control measures in legal engagements.
• Corporate Governance & Board Support: Prepare meeting papers, agendas, minutes, and resolutions, manage pre and post meeting formalities.  Provide secretarial and governance support for board and shareholder meetings. 

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• Extensive experience in corporate legal advisory in financial services, ideally as Directeur Juridique or Responsable Juridique in France.
• Proven track record in governance, cross-border banking transactional matters, and legal risk management.
• Strong understanding of French and European legal systems.
• A strong understanding of Markets or Lending products and documentation within Institutional Banking
• Bilingual proficiency in French and English as this role will interact with internal stakeholders and local regulators. 
• Familiarity with cross-border legal practices and international regulatory frameworks is preferred.
• Exposure to legal technology and innovation in legal services is an advantage.

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

From the moment you join ANZ, you'll be doing meaningful work that will shape a world where people and communities thrive.

But it's not just our customers who'll feel your impact. you'll feel it too. Because at ANZ, you'll have the resources, opportunities, and support you need to take the next big step in your career.

We're a diverse bunch at ANZ in different roles, different locations, doing different things. That's why we have a range of flexible working arrangements, so our people can 'make work, work for them'. We also provide a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services and discounts on selected products and services from ANZ and more.

At ANZ, you'll be part of an organisation where the different backgrounds, perspectives and life experiences of our people are celebrated. That's because we're committed to building a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from everyone and encourage you to talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirement, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ, visit https://www.anz.com.au/careers. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 107736.

Job Posting End Date

09/01/2026 , 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)